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Unum necessarium awakenings for the unregenerate. Or, The nature and necessity of regeneration. Handled…
Unum necessarium awakenings for the unregenerate. Or, The nature and necessity of regeneration. Handled in a discourse designed for the service of any that may be thereby assisted in the grand concern of conversion unto God; but especially the rising generation. : With an addition of some other sermons relating to that important subject. / By Cotton Mather. ; [Five lines from Ezekiel]
Boston printed: printed by B.H. i.e for Duncan Campbell, 1693
Title page typeset from the transcription.
AWAKENINGS FOR THE UNREGENERATE. › Proposition 2: The Second PROPOSITION.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Once more, 'Tis not enough to say, Good men Judge nothing but good of me, I have a room in the heart of such as are eminent for Godliness; yea, I am of their party, and have suffered with them. There was a time when David thought as well of Ahithophel. And among all the Disciples, who suspected Judas? A Simon Magus may for a while be regarded by the most Eminent Apostles of Our Lord. An Ananias, and a Sapphira, may get into the Church. And impious Alexanders, have been famous Confessors, for the Cause of God.
Once more, 'Tis not enough to say, Good men Judge nothing but good of me, I have a room in the heart of such as are eminent for Godliness; yea, I am of their party, and have suffered with them. There was a time when David thought as well of Achitophel. And among all the Disciples, who suspected Judas? A Simon Magus may for a while be regarded by the most Eminent Apostles of Our Lord. An Ananias, and a Sapphira, may get into the Church. And impious Alexanders, have been famous Confessors, for the Cause of God.
Add hereunto; 'Tis not enough to say, God hath smiled many ways upon me; He hath answered my Prayers, prevented my Fears, and shown himself concerned for me. What if all your Preservations be but Reservations! Was there not an Ham spared, when Millions of people perished about him? What if your petitions are heard in the Court of Heaven, but in the course of Common Providence! Did not a Pharaoh receive what he asked?
All these things will be but so many, Refuges of Lies, if you go to shelter yourselves without Regeneration in them. God will no more spare you for these things, than Samuel did Agag, for the Ornaments that were upon him.